[drand](https://drand.love/) (pronounced *DEE-rand*, short for ‘distributed randomness’) is open source software that powers a threshold cryptonetwork operated by a consortium of 20+ different international organizations called the [League of Entropy](https://www.cloudflare.com/leagueofentropy/) (LoE). drand provides publicly verifiable, unpredictable, bias-resistant randomness values, along with other key features such as distributed key generation (DKG) management, timelock encryption, and more! - several cryptographic infrastructure primitives that have a myriad of uses, both individually and in concert with one another as part of composable applications.
The drand “mainnet” provides publicly available randomness values every 30 seconds. There is a new “quicknet” near completion that has been successfully tested, and will provide randomness every 3 seconds.